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each about twice as long as 2. Thorax rufous yellow, deeply bifoveate and 

 impressed in front of the scutel, sides strongly sinuate behind, scutel 

 black, elytra maroon coloured, thickly, strongly and semi-confluently 

 punctate, obsoletely })licate, with the lateral margin and a subsutural 

 stripe flavous ; this latter embraces two rather feebly raised smooth costae, 

 of wliich the outer is the most prominent, body beneath dark, legs dark, 

 with cox?e and ^3 of femora flavous. Length, 6 mm. 



Two examples, St. Catharine, Brazil ; also 2 Amazon Valley, near 

 Saiitarem. 



This species has much the general appearance of corrusca Har, or 

 innuba Fabr., but the punctuation of the elytra is very different and the 

 co5la much less prominent. What I have above designated as the inner 

 costa is scarcely deserving of the name, as it becomes very feeble 

 l)OSteriorly ; the reticulated effect which the punctures have in corrusca is 

 wholly wanting here ; the flavous vittse attain the base, but do not join 

 there ; the subsutural stripe is quite distinctly limited at the sides, narrow 

 and straight ; the epipleura^ are fiavous. 



D. V it tula, nov. sp. 



Head rufous with a deep frontal fovea, and black vertex and labrum, 

 antenrae slender, black, piceous at base, 3 joint not as long as 4, both 

 much longer than 2, thorax rufous, broader than long, bifoveate and 

 broadly depressed transversely, sides nearly straiglit behind and broadly 

 rounded to the front, scutel and elytra shining black, the latter finely 

 punctate, very obsoletely striate, strongly plicate, a yellow vitta from the 

 middle of the base, somewhat diagonally to near the apex, where it joins 

 the lateral margin, which is also yellow, apex is black, body beneath 

 flavous, anus dark, legs yellow, with apex of femora tibiae and tarsi dark. 

 Length, 3}^ mm. 



Four examj^les, Peru, green label (Callanga?) 



Near dejeani ]2iC.^ and cerea Jac, from Central America, but a little 

 larger ; the elytra are considerably dilated at the rear and quite broadly 

 margined, the elytral and lateral vittae join at the base as well as at the 

 apex and in only one example does the elytral stripe become obsolete at 

 the convexity ; in one or two of the specimens the vitta is obsoletely 

 sinuate at about the median third ; the yellow stripe, when complete, 

 leaves a black sutural vitta from base to apex, broadest in front. 



